Support



F.C.DARL1NG.

SUPPORT.

FILED MAR 5, 1921.

Jan. 9, 1923,

FAY CASE DARLING, Ull TU, NE TUE.

SUTUW'T'.

Application filed March a, Witt.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Far C. DARLING, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Walton, in the county of Delaware and State of New York,have invented a new and Improved Support, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in supports, an object of theinvention being to provide a device which may be conveniently attachedto aboiler and which will serve as a support for clothes or similararticles to be dried by the heat of the boiler.

A further object is to provide a device of this character in the form ofa circumferentially adjustable ring or hoop having a plurality ofindividual supports associated therewith and to provide improved meansfor adjusting the ring.

Another object is to provide a support of this character, which may bequickly attached to a boiler, which will be simple and practical inconstruction, strong and durable in use, and comparatively inexpensiveto manufacture.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction and combinations and arrangements ofparts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in theclaim.

Tn the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation illustrating my improved support inapplied position;

Figure 2 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the hook carryingmembers 10;

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Figure 3 is a top plan view of the hoop 2, with parts broken away forclearness.

Referring in detail to the drawings, 1 represents a conventional type ofupright ey indrical boiler and it is to such a boiler that my improvedsupport is attached. 2 represents a split ring or band of resilientmetal. The ring preferably comprises two arcuate sections such as 3 andA, joined together at their ends. Adjacent one end, the section 3 isprovided with a series of slots or perforations, such as 5, in any oneof which, a ton ue 6 on the end of the section A is selective yengageable. At their other ends the members 8 and A terminate inoutwardly presented perforated lugs such as 7.

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A screw 8 extending through the lugs is adjustable by means of a nut 9to contract the ring 2, as will be readily understood.

The ring serves to support any desired number of hangers such as 10. Thehangers are in the form of wooden strips provided at their upper endswith inwardly'and downwardly presented hooks 11, engageable over thehoop orring 2. The extremities 12 of the hooks 11 are parallel to thehangers so that the hangers are rigidly supported on the ring 2.

Wire hooks such as 13 are carried by the outer faces of the hangers l0and preferably comprise lengths of wire having their ends attached tothe hangers 10 and their intermediate portions bent to form upwardlypresented hooks ll.

It will be apparent due to the circumferential adjustability of the ringor hoop 2, that any number of hangers may be conveniently supported bythe ring.

Although l have illustrated one of the I preferred embodiments of myinvention, it will be apparent that various slight changes andalterations might be made in the general form and arrangement of theparts described without departing from the invention and hence I do notwish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but shallconsider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterationsas fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

In a device of the character stated, the combination with an elongatemetal strip having parallel opposite sides adapted to be bent transverseto the width of the ring and so contracted to form a substantiallyclosed hoop to encircle an upright cylindrical support and carryingmeans whereby the strip may be frictionally locked on the support at apredetermined height, of a hook including a backing member and a hookproper, the backing member having the shape of an inverted ll wherebythe same may be booked at the bottom of the U over an edge of the stripwith the arms of the ll on o posite sides of the strip, the backingmember being of wood and the widthof the U being substantially equal tothe thickness of the strip and the o posed faces of the arms being planean parallel, whereby when the strip is loosened from its supportsupport, the part of the metal strip which I and: then expanded to havea greater radius is embraced by the backing bites mto the of curvature,the backing member may be soft material of the wood acking to fric- 10freely slid alon the strip for adjustment tionally lock the backingmember at a pre- 5 thereon with re ation to a plurality of itsdetermined point along the length of the fellows, and whereby when thestrip is again strip. contracted and frictionally secured to its FAYCHASE DARLING.

